Mette Neville is professor at the Department of Law, Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her main research area is company law and corporate governance. She holds a Ph.D. degree for which she was awarded Gad's Law Award. She is, e.g., the Vice-chairman of the Danish Securities Council and Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee at Nord Pool ASA, OMX and member of the Committee for Financial Supervision. She participates in many different networks; for example, she is Chairman of the Board of the Danish Corporate Governance Network, member of the Company Law Research Group